Futuristic science fiction set in a world in which the patriarchy rules with an iron fist—and non-compliant women are sent to a prison outpost commonly known as Bitch Planet. Violent, intelligent, and occasionally viciously funny, Bitch Planet uses and subverts the aesthetics and tropes of exploitation movies to comment on gender and race, power and identity, on the policing of women’s bodies and on the ways that various forms of media are used to subjugate, influence, and control.

Maria Merian, Mary Anning, and Maria Mitchell—three real girls separated by oceans and centuries—had much more in common than one might think. Through observation, curiosity, tenacity, passion, and intelligence, each one of them bucked tradition and expectation, and in doing so, moved our understanding of the natural world forward.

Faith is full of questions, curiosity, intellect, and anger—all traits that are frowned on in an upper-middle class Victorian Era girl. When her beloved father is found dead, most people assume it was a suicide, but Faith knows he was murdered… and she intends to prove it, by whatever means necessary.